Word: soaks
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...black rain fell. It looked like oil to Seiko Komatsu, then 9. He saw the rain soak his wounded grandparents. He had been having breakfast in their house when the bomb fell and gutted it. Three days later, the city of Nagasaki was destroyed by another atom bomb. Japan announced its unconditional surrender on Aug. 14. --By Lisa Takeuchi Cullen
...don’t miss mine at all. When I am suddenly plunged into a Twilight Zone moment in which I am the only person on a street without a cell phone glued to my face, I am unsettled but also satisfied that I can take notice of and soak in the surrounding cityscape in quiet solemnity...
...Quincy, you throw out your own napkin and toss your own silverware into a bucket o’ water to soak...
...third of Brazilians in poverty, and an estimated 46 million hungry, is gross inequality: 20% of the population receive 70% of the nation's income, while 3% hold almost two-thirds of its almost half a billion hectares of arable land. Lula is careful not to declare a soak-the-rich crusade, and his hesitancy to come out for stiff progressive taxation makes his party's left wing crazy. And it's too soon to tell whether his four-year, $1.5 billion Zero Hunger program will be enough to make good on his promise to the poor...
...steady supply of government-directed "policy loans" that will in all likelihood never be paid back. China's four biggest banks are technically insolvent because they are owed an estimated $500 billion in nonperforming state-enterprise loans. Yet, according to the Asian Development Bank (ADB), state firms continue to soak up approximately 70% of all loans...